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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to setup a simple firewall in FreeBSD using IPFW

April 24, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Setting the firewall up is a mandatory task on any computer facing the internet. This is a simple, straightforward how to article on how to setup a box with an easy firewall configuration on FreeBSD. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use this link to get […]

VMWare ESXi (One)

January 11, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

The VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor developed by the VMWare company and it is widely known and used in many environments and enterprises of all sorts. Nowadays it is the main component of a sort of a software suite. It is a type one hypervisor which means it runs directly on to the hardware controlling […]

How to find vulnerabilities in your WordPress with WPScan

March 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability scanners are useful tools for administrators and security analysts alike. For the casual WordPress user tools like WPScan may look excessive and complicated for their knowledge, they just need their blog, web page, whatever they’re doing up and running. Any complex administration bothers them to the max, and there are good and valid reasons […]

How to install Ansible on FreeBSD

May 14, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Ansible is a very useful tool geared to system’s configuration and applications deployment. In this how to install Ansible on FreeBSD I will briefly explain what the tool is, what it does, what it does not and how to install it on FreeBSD. I will also demonstrate very basic use and on a later article […]

Monitoring Systems (One)

January 8, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

Monitoring systems or how to get lost in fierce madness. There are many solutions to monitor systems and most of them have some kind of web interface to operate. Choosing the right tool for any job is a tedious task and for a newbie like me it is a bit harder, specially for a sensitive […]

How to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown on an HP Proliant server with Ubuntu

September 1, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

As recently announced in a previous article I wanted to write a couple of guides on how to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux and UNIX environments. It is always a good and I hope a standard practice to have your systems patched and if they aren’t for whatever the reason (that legacy thing […]

Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition Book Review

March 7, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition from Michael W. Lucas, printed by ‘No Starch Press’, is an absolute (pun intended) must have for every BSD user and I’d go so far as to say to every UNIX and Linux user indeed. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use […]

The firewall

April 23, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

If you don’t know why you need a firewall it’s because you are not very tech savy. Don’t worry. You can discover by yourself why you need one. The router sitting in your house has one installed in it. And please don’t disable that by any mean. You can check why a firewall is important […]

How to mirror disks on FreeBSD’s ZFS

May 11, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This article is not going to be a long, detailed, specialized how to. I just wanted to share the ease and the fantastic quality of ZFS for a dead simple need I had. A spare box with a spare disk doing nothing could be repurposed as a file share box at home. Mirroring the two […]

How to install Docker on Ubuntu 18.04

February 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Operating System level virtualization is hitting hard now, as much as VM’s did just a few years ago. Docker is the popular framework for this matter, the new kid on the block so to speak. This is the hot spot now and if anyone wants to appear knowledgeable about system administration knowing this technology is […]

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